Chinese American Family Cut Offs
The distortion of the family unit being more important than your life has origins in the principles that Confucius on-record listed of Ritual 禮 pronounced “Li” and Filial Piety 孝順 pronounced “Xiao Shun”. On surface-level read, it seems to be a nice theoretical concept. However, when we incorporate the understanding that this world order placed men above women and chronologically older people above those who have incarnated later, we run into oppressive constructs of patriarchy and scarcity mindset/territorialism.
A primer into romantic relationships
People currently have difficulty responding maturely to the hurt feelings of their spouse, who they love the most. If we are not able to treat those that we love with the utmost consideration, I would say we have not earned the right to complain that other people are picking up guns. We have not mastered the spiritual frequency for love and peace in our personal lives, so we are not able to scale it and ripple it out to the macrosystem.